I've been thinking about a Council Fire rake. Guessing what it would cost me to buy and ship 1, do you think it's a worthwhile expense?

It depends a lot on your terrain and how you build trails. There's 3 situations where we use it.

1) on trail days with a good turn out. The fire line technique is massively impressive with a few fire rake ahead to break the duff layer. It's lightweight so even kids and small ladies can use it for a long time.

2) on very important amount of organic layer (8"+) where we either a) remove everything or b) cut a thread and import material on top. In some place, we built a trail on top of 2ft of organic matter by adding a geotextile, rocks and dirt on top. The fire rake was used to create the base layer.

3) on rock slab to remove the moss. But we tend to use the Rogue 70H more and more for this type of work...

It depends a lot on your terrain and how you build trails. There's 3 situations where we use it.

1) on trail days with a good turn out. The fire line technique is massively impressive with a few fire rake ahead to break the duff layer. It's lightweight so even kids and small ladies can use it for a long time.

2) on very important amount of organic layer (8"+) where we either a) remove everything or b) cut a thread and import material on top. In some place, we built a trail on top of 2ft of organic matter by adding a geotextile, rocks and dirt on top. The fire rake was used to create the base layer.

3) on rock slab to remove the moss. But we tend to use the Rogue 70H more and more for this type of work...

We don't bring it everyday, but it's definitively part of our toolkit

PM me your address and I can send you a quote for a fire rake.

I like the light weight. I'm recovering from an illness and don't have anywhere near the strength I used to have. I used to be able to swing a McLeod all day, now I'm good for about an hour and I'm done for the day. I know there are lots of places I can use a fire rake.

I'm hoping to be able to use it in place of a landscape or leveling rake + light duty digging. I tend to trash landscaping rakes.

I'm on the road right now but when I get settled, I'll get in touch.

I could be up your way soon. At least as far as Cornwall.

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